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Reading “The Dancing Wu Li Masters” tonight, really got me thinking about electron standing wave patterns. Ok, I get into weird things sometimes when I am bored. It is the advantage of not having a television, you actually use your brain.

Quantum physics became interesting to me when I learned about quantum computers; machines that would stop working when observed! I have always been a skeptic when it came to the unexplained, but here, we have it, shown by science, not by some (maybe not so) deranged mystic. You know the old question “When a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” No need to meditate for years anymore. According to science, apparently not. It even raises another question: “Is there anything at all without observers?” Again, apparently not. Science is about to merge with eastern mysticism. I don’t think anyone has thought much about the implications and consequences these new discoveries will have on society in the near future.

Now, according to Schrödinger, electrons really do not bounce between different orbits of an atom’s nucleus, like in Bohr’s planetary model, but rather, are standing waves changing patterns as energy levels change, quantum jumps. Did I understand this right? Schrödinger pictured electrons as being spread out over their wave patterns in the form of a tenuous cloud.

I would not have been able to picture any of this at all, had I not seen the following video:

Yep, standing waves were known in the middle ages…

Change the frequency of the sound (thus changing the energy, hello Mr. Planck!), standing waves jump from one pattern to another. Ha! Great stuff, it makes more sense now. So, an atom is not a bunch of little balls orbiting a nucleus, and is it isn’t made of “stuff.” That really puzzles the mind… It seems to me like movement is the key. Isn’t energy always kinetic, sort of? Let’s see, Einstein found that E=mc2. We have energy, mass(matter), speed (movement), and it’s all related. Movement is energy which creates matter?

Now, that reminds me of something else, introduced to me by my good friend Joey: The reciprocal system by Dewey B. Larson. If I remember our coffee shop discussions well, he (Larson) stated that all matter was no more than spinning movement, or something of that nature.. It all made a whole lot of sense when I heard and discussed it, now I can’t remember it all.

In any case, reality isn’t what it seems. Reality is what we make it. We may actually make everything. We are the center of the universe, because we materialize it.

I am only on page 110 of the book, and I already feel myself turning Buddhist, amazing. I will report later on, I am sure, other epiphanies, as I learn more about Quantum Physics. I highly recommend the book. Another great book, because we also have a standing wave, is “Kiln People,” by David Brin; one of the most entertaining science fiction book I have ever read.

Until next time, keep thinking out of the box (the one with the cat inside